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There are TV moments… and then there are national events. On this day in 1996, Britain collectively slammed the brakes on normal life, parked itself on the sofa, and watched Del Boy and Rodney Trotter finally do the impossible. After years of wheeling, dealing, ducking bailiffs and selling absolute tat, the boys from Peckham became millionaires, banking a tidy £6.2...

For nearly three decades, The Jerry Springer Show wasn’t just daytime TV. It was a weekly experiment in how far civilisation could bend before snapping. Chairs flew. Secrets spilled. Dignity packed its bags and left the building by episode three. Springer guests didn’t feel real. They felt too much. Too loud. Too strange. Too perfectly unhinged. Which is exactly why...

GENIUS SNACK CROSSOVER… OR A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY? 🤯🍫🥔 There are moments in life when you see a product and your brain immediately files it under: “This shouldn’t exist… but I absolutely need to try it.” Enter stage left: Pringles Cadbury Dairy Milk Dipped. A sentence that feels illegal to say out loud. Pringles. Chocolate. Together. No safety net. No...

There’s heavy… and then there’s drag-you-under-and-don’t-let-go heavy. Belfast death metal wrecking crew Indominus are firmly operating in the second category on Black Lake, a track that doesn’t just punch you in the face, but calmly grabs you by the collar and pulls you into the depths. This isn’t death metal in a hurry. This is death metal that waits. From...

Grief, loyalty, loss — and the most radical refusal in rock history 🤘🖤 On July 26, 1977, Robert Plant was the most celebrated rock vocalist on the planet. Frontman of Led Zeppelin.Stadiums flattened. America conquered. Cash pouring in faster than the amps could cool.He wasn’t just famous — he was mythologised. A so-called Golden God strutting across stages while the...

There was a time, kids, when computers didn’t pretend to fix themselves in the background while quietly making things worse. There was a time when you decided it was defrag day. Once a week. Maybe Sunday night. Maybe after tea. You’d crack your knuckles, fire up that glorious slab of late-90s wizardry, and sit back as your PC slowly rearranged...

The Cure guitarist remembered as a “warm-hearted great friend” 💔🎸 Sad news has rippled through the alternative and goth rock world today, mun. Perry Bamonte, guitarist and longtime collaborator with The Cure, has died aged 65. The band confirmed the news in a heartfelt tribute, describing Bamonte as a “warm-hearted great friend” whose presence went far beyond the stage. For...

Leftovers in the fridge, telly glowing, chaos paused. This is the one, mun. Boxing Day is a strange, beautiful limbo. The turkey’s gone cold, the Quality Street tins are already 80 percent purple ones, and no one knows what day it is anymore. Perfect conditions, then, for diving headfirst into Stranger Things and letting the real world jog on for...

Massive love to every single one of you for the support, the shares, the comments, the good vibes – honestly, you lot keep this whole riff-powered circus rolling. Proper grateful, mun. Now it’s time to chuck the feet up, whack on Stranger Things, and attempt the ancient ritual of “I’ll just watch one episode” before inevitably fighting sleep like it’s...

Right, butt… hold onto your tights because the multiverse has officially glitched. Tony Hawk has just made his ballet debut in The Nutcracker with the Golden State Ballet, and somewhere a halfpipe and a pirouette have just locked eyes and nodded in mutual respect 🤝🔥 This isn’t satire. This isn’t a late-night sketch. This is real life doing a kickflip...

Today we raise a pint, a fist, and probably the volume knob to celebrate Shane Greenhall – riff architect, groove commander, and one of the key engines powering the Crows’ relentless rise 🖤🎸 From sweat-soaked club floors to roaring festival fields, Shane’s playing has helped soundtrack some of the finest modern Welsh rock moments going. Big riffs, bigger heart, and...

“The Australian music industry is parasitic” – and they’re done 💔🔥 Well this one’s gone down like a dropped amp on concrete, butt. Melbourne noise terrorists Private Function have announced they’re breaking up after nine years of beautiful chaos, sweat-drenched gigs, and zero-time-for-your-bullshit punk rock. And in classic Private Function fashion, they didn’t bow out quietly. They lit the fuse,...

Right. Gather round, you beautiful lot, because this might be the most rock ’n’ roll scam attempt the internet has coughed up all year. Earlier today, a message allegedly from Liam Gallagher landed in someone’s Instagram inbox with all the subtlety of a tambourine to the face. “Hello this is Liam Gallagher” “Oasis needs $50 to make the new album”...

Because nothing kills Christmas dinner faster than blast beats and blasphemy. Christmas is meant to be about peace, goodwill, and pretending you like your relatives. Metal, however, has other ideas. So before you hand over the Bluetooth speaker to your uncle who still thinks Metallica sold out with The Black Album, here’s your official Riff Report survival guide to the...

Southend city centre is currently swarming with police following a serious incident that appears to have escalated rapidly this evening. Multiple eyewitnesses report heavy police presence, road disruption, and at least one police vehicle badly damaged at the scene. Locals are being urged to avoid the area completely as emergency services continue to respond. This is a live and developing...